Are you too befuddled by the warm temperatures we are experiencing these days in Southern Indiana? I know it is not insulated to us exclusively, the warm weather, but this is where we get ours. I am amazed at how warm it has been.
Last week I walked a great deal outdoors very comfortably and in reasonably comfortable clothing. I was not in bulky sweat pants or wearing a heavy coat or anything. I was stepping it off in casual exercise gear.
Having just looked at a weather forecast for this week, it is raining as I type these words and I suspect we shall get a great deal of precipitation this week, it says we are going to be in 60s all week and on Saturday we could hit 70. Wow. This is good news for the pocket book. This will keep home heating costs at bay for at least a few more weeks…maybe longer. This is a good thing. Lat week I saw a wasp flying around outside. He looked like lost wasp. ugly as ever and lost.
We are five bowl games into the bowl season and one will be played this afternoon. Of the 5 so far, I picked 3 of those correctly. Appalachian State beat Ohio by one lousy point. Utah beat BYU in the Holy War in Sin City. Two utah teams playing in Las Vegas. There truly are too many bowls if we are left with an early match up of two quality teams playing in a less than quality location.
Yesterday Carrie, my dear wife, and I attended the service at unity Chapel united Methodist Church. It was a grand time. My Dad was singing in the choir. They presented a wonderful cantata for Christmas. The choir sounded great and the numbers they sang were excellent. I am so glad we were there.
Later in the day Carrie and I went to my Mom and Dad’s house and ate dinner with them. My sister, my niece, and my nephew were there also. In fact, the youngsters hopped in the car with me to pick up the pizza we had for lunch. We all had a good time.
After our meal, we filed into another room to watch my mother’s favorite football team, the Minnesota Vikings. She is a Teddy Bridgewater fan. She will tell you she has not rooted for a pro football team since she was a fan of Cris Collinsworth when he played with the Cincinnati Bengals in the 1980s. She will sit there and watch Teddy’s every move. When he drops back to pass or decides to take off and run for a yard of two, Mom always throws down edicts to Teddy’s teammates. “Block for him!” “Help him ! Help him!” These are two phrases you can count on hearing when Tressie Johnson is watching the Minnesota Vikings play football these days.
In fact, and I wish I had a picture of it here, she was wearing a newly acquired Teddy Bridgewater #5 jersey as she watched yesterday. It was a sight to behold.
Block for him!
And…speak the rights.
Danny Johnson